University Daily Kansan, November 21, 1980
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On Campus
TODAY
THE NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN
FELLOWSHIP will have an in-
formational table in front of 3139
Wescoe Hall from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
TONIGHT
THE BLOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST will sponsor a program on "Intimacy-Agone or Ecstasy by Soul Purpose" at 7 p.m. in the longe of Lewis Hall.
THE INTERN-VARSITY CHRISTIAN
FELLOWSHIP will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
the regionalist Room of the Kansas
Union.
The KU FOLK DANCE CLUB will
at 7:30 p.m. in Robinston Gymnasium
TOMORROW
THE KANKS HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY will meet at 10 a.m. in the Public Education Room of Dyche Natural History Museum.
SUNDAY
RECREATION SERVICES will sponsor the 5th annual Turkey Trot
Cross Country Race at 10 a.m. at 23rd and Iowa streets.
MOHAMMED SABER will speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
MONDAY
The SCRABBLE CLUB will meet from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union.
Jin Weinud, chairman of the department of art history at the Central Institute of Fine Arts in Peking, will lecture on CHINESE PAINTING IN THE 19TH CENTURY at CHINA at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art.
CIRCLE K will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in 2006 Mollah Hall.
By United Press International
The CHESS CLUB will meet from 1 to 4 p.m. in Parlor A and B of the Kansas University
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U.S. accepts conditions set by Iran, Muskie says
Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said yesterday that the United States had accepted in principle Ira's four nominations. $22 Americans held hostage in Tehran.
However, a State Department spokesman said the agency was detecting a rabies outbreak in the bogus city.
ASKED WHETHER the United States accepts in principle the condition that the wealth of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Fahlavi be returned to Iran, Traitner repeated, "We have accepted in principle the four conditions."
Muskie's spokesman, John Trattner,
was unable to say where or when such a
public statement had been made
confirmed that it was the U.S. position.
"As we have said before, the United States accepts in principle the conditions laid down by the Iranian Parliament," the spokesman said.
I would discourage reading in the events of the past 12 hours any
Trattner said the United States was still awaiting a formal reply from the Iranians about the American response to the four demands. The response to them has been delivered to the Iranians through an Algerian intermediary.
significant pattern," Trattner said.
The statement by the Algerian Ambassador to France, Mohamed Sahnoun, came after Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Allaji had asked the United States to clarify its hostages' release.
In Paris, an Algerian diplomat said the problem of the 52 American hostages was slowly but surely coming to an end.
Diplomatic sources, quoted by KUNA, the Kuwaiti News Agency, said Iran had accepted the U.S. replies to two of the conditions and that the Algerian mediators had extended their offer to Khan to work for the hostages' release.
KUNA said Rajai had confirmed that a statement made in Aligiers Wednesday by the speaker of the Iranian Parliament that Washington had agreed in principle to the demands and that Iran would release the hostages immediately upon fulfillment of the conditions.
The four conditions set by Parliament Nov. 2 were a pledge not to interfere in Iran's internal affairs, the unfreezing of Iranian assets, the return of the late shah's wealth and the cancellation of all legal claims against Iran.
KU program provides education at home
By PAT WEEMS Staff Reporter
A housewife in St. Francis has two children and wants to continue her education, but can't because her schedule is so tight, allow her to major university.
An undergraduate education major was the last to enroll because his name began with Z and he didn't get the course that he needed to graduate.
COMMONWEALTH THEATRES
ENROLLMENT OF the program is
enrolled in 30 percent from last
year's enrollment of
Although hypothetical, situations like these happen often and focus on two of the groups that KU's Independent Study program serves.
The Independent Study program, one of 100 offered in the country, is a Kansas Board of Regents institutions program that allows people in Kansas to study at a high school or to continue their high school and college educations by correspondence.
KU student students account for 20 to
percent of those taking Independent
Ship.
According to Orville Voth, director of the program, survey data show that 60 percent of the students in the program are women, 64 percent are enrolled in some type of school such as a junior college, high school or four-year school, a teacher, time and percent already have earned a degree in some area of study.
Reasons that traditional students enroll in the classes range from having a schedule conflict to having only one or two hours needed to graduate to taking college knowledge gained, said Bruce Erickson, assistant director of publications.
Approximately 50 to 60 percent of the course begins the courses finish them. Voth starts.
Courses are initiated when Independent Study personnel hear of a need from high school counselors, students or professors.
they first must be approved by the instructor's departments and schools
The large amount of work involved contributes to the program's accomplishment.
Most Independent Study courses require a large amount of reading and writing.
"Often we go to the school and ask whether they would like a course offered in areas in which we see a great snowy and campus interest." Voth said.
That's why the comments on the returned assignments are very important, she said.
However, courses in mathematics, political violence and history also are taught in higher education.
High school courses are offered in traditional high school subjects, such as mathematics and history, and humanities and social sciences, providing topical studies not available in many high schools.
"Nobody can tell what it is really like, you take a course yourself," Erickson says.
All of the courses offered can be taken for credit or non-credit. Students wishing to use the courses toward their degree requirements should check with academic adviser for approval. But a course may be obtained through Independent Study.
Kitzsteiner did most of her work during the Christmas and spring breaks, but she did some work while on campus. She said she found no differences in the course taught on Christmas and the one in Independent Study.
Because there are more education-oriented courses, education majors seem to be the largest group of enrollees.
Courses also are available for professionals in physical therapy and nursing.
Because she took her final in Illinois, she was required to let the instructor know how to week advance and works on the state mate was required to monitor the exam.
The frustrating thing about the course, she said, was that when she wanted to talk to the professor about assignments, the professor wasn't there.
Enrollment in Independent Study has increased recently at KU although there has been a gradual decline in the program's numbers over the last 10
"I don't think I learn any less than
the instructor, class with an im-
structor," she said.
Debra Dandridge, history teaching assistant, said she found that she was somewhat more lenient on the Independent Study students in her American History class because so many reading and writing was required.
Calcagno has eight students enrolled in his introduction to physical anthropology course from as far away as Massachusetts and Idaho.
He said he kept in mind that many of the correspondence students did not have the same chance to straighten out that the students on campus did.
James Calagno, teaching assistant in anthropology, also said he did not grade his anthropology students on his research, but did his Independent Study students.
The final exam, she said, is a standardized test that measures carparks and Independent Study classes.
Courses such as child development and behavior, introduction to general psychology and sociology and algebra have the greatest enrollment, Vohh said.
"This is the only time an instructor gets to see if the student is doing his own work," she said.
"Many of the students don't anticipate the level of difficulty and percentage of hard work involved," he said.
Freshmen and sophomore collegelevel courses for qualified students who wish to earn college credits while still in high school also are offered.
Students can enroll in 130 college or 50 high school courses that are offered once a KU adviser has given his OK. Non-students must go to the Independent Study office to obtain its approval.
Scott also said that the final examination, which consisted of a combination of essay questions and than the final she gave her other class.
BUT INSTRUCTORS who teach the classes agree that the courses, while similar in many ways to their on-campus equivalents, are not easy.
"A lot of students taking the courses think they are easy and a quick way to get a credit hour."
"The day of reckoning is finals day," Erickson said.
She said she applied the same rigorous standards to her Independent Study course that she applied to the university's literature class she taught on campus
"Anyone who gets an A in children's literature has earned it," said Nancy Scott, lecturer in English. She also teaches science high school science fiction course.
Voth said he possibly could attribute the decline to the increased amount of higher education institutions and junior colleges available in Kansas.
Voth also said a lot of students thought the courses were easier than on-campus courses.
KIM KITZSTEINER, Chicago junior enrolled in an Independent Study
Kitzsteiner enrolled in the course, which consisted of 10 lessons and two books. She said she enrolled in the course after Thanksgiving and finished it. Students are given one year to complete the course from the date of enrollment.
BECAUSE THERE is the possibility that the student taking the lessons may not be the one actually doing the work, the student is required to show two pieces of identification before being allowed to take the final.
"I needed an extra three hours because I had dropped a class and I needed a class to fulfill my distribution requirement for journalism." she said.
Students taking the courses are required to pass the final, which is
After permission was granted, she said, she completed six lessons and was given a midterm, then more lessons and later the final.
Once she began the course, she had to get the instructor's approval before she could take on the job.
course in human development last semester.
INDEPENDENT STUDY courses are often written by instructors, but
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